Congrats for building a faulty 20km highway for $1billion! Kafka is proud of you.

12:34 am September 21, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

"soda water and lentils" --surely "Lentilki," the Czech equivalent of M&M's chocolate candy.

--Every big project will have some faults. What was the last big one in the US? The Big Dig? The Denver airport? How did those turn out?

--Poland is also constructing approximately half of its Warsaw ring road right now, with completion within two years.

3:18 am September 21, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

2Anonymous: "lentils" don´t mean "Lentilky", but lentils - pulse, like beans etc. But joke was lost in translation anyway, soda water and lentils mean not only food, but it´s also a (both of it) term to "get told off" for something.

3:18 am September 21, 2010

Czech Anonymous wrote:

2Anonymous: "lentils" don´t mean "Lentilky", but lentils - pulse, like beans etc. But joke was lost in translation anyway, soda water and lentils mean not only food, but it´s also a (both of it) term to "get told off" for something.

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